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We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.

All religions teach the same basic thing, that you have to stand up for those that are considered the worst.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.